Human [or animal] consciousness, we don't really understand what it is, do we ?

Is consciousness something connected to self-awareness ?

And none of us, really understand what our true circumstances are [in 'being' here].

Only a few generations ago, learned doctors in Europe, were not washing their bare hands, between pelvic examinations of pregnant women.

And only a few more generations, before that, the 'Americas' were virtually unknown to the wisest minds within 'the known world'.



We still struggle and strive with each other, for a few years, on this little rock, and then we die.

And we leave what follows afterward, to the generations who come after us.

And all of our accumulated human knowledge, is only supposition, built upon supposition.

There is little wisdom there.



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Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.


Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11  He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
12  I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13  And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

@ Reply #46,


Lots.

Some, seemingly contradictory [in character.  if we view scripture is reflective of the character of God ?].

Exodus 15:3
The LORD is a man of war....


Exodus 23:4
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.


Exodus 23:5
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.



Drinking wine ?

I don't believe that God prohibits that.

Nor in men enjoying pleasure which they find, in this life.



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"And what is good, Phaedrus?
And what is not good?
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
- Plato


And it is not even in the bible !                              

Q.
Do we love God     [i.e ...more than the world] ?


[the answer, ] 'It isn't rocket science.'



Psalms 73:1
Truly God is good.....to such as are of a clean heart.

Now look what you have done FD.